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December 31, 2014

From the Hamilton family to you, may your New Year be filled with love, music, good health, and happiness. We pray that you know Jesus Christ as your lord and savior and you walk with him through this new year.

Hubby and I will be spending the night together as his band, Justified, plays contemporary Christian rock music to a full house at our local fair ground building. I will post some pictures and video in the New Year!

God Bless you all. Thank you for your friendship through the years here at Right Truth. Also a big thank you to all the great contributors here who have done a fantastic job of keeping Right Truth active.

December 22, 2014

One of these Christmases I fully expect the muslims to issue a defense of the 1st century arab, the late, great, Herod.They would make some outrageous claim that all he intended to do was to worship the child born in Bethlehem and that he'd been misunderstood and maligned for two millennia. The liberals and atheists would applaud and, to the accusation of infanticide, our politicians would assure us that the killers were evidently "lone wolves", acting outside of Herod's authority, and to suggest otherwise is racist....or something.The muslims would not have to seek far afield to find their own reason for the flight of the Holy Family: the nefarious Joos, this time in collusion with the Romans.It is not far-fetched to say that, were Herod alive today, he would qualify for a hefty handout from the western nations to help the dear man build schools and hospitals.Something just as absurd as this scenario is being suggested today, in David's (note that) City of Bethlehem.

October 17, 2014

Ebola is the gift that will keep on giving, not just an October Surprise, it will continue to spread in coming months. Thanks President Obama. The only silver lining I can see in all of this is that it may finally tank the Obama Administration. Thanks to Obama’s idiocy (or is it his colossal ignorance, arrogance, or hatred of America) Ebola is now in the heart of America. Thomas Eric Duncan, who brought Ebola to Dallas, would (if he were still alive) be prosecuted in his native Liberia for falsely claiming he had not been in contact with any Ebola cases. He seems to have ‘shared’ his virus with a couple of his caretakers in Dallas and there are now at least 200 people being monitored – this is what is being widely report. Duncan had 70 (why so many?) healthcare workers who should have been quarantined. They could still be paid, they could still communicate with the outside world by telephone, but the rest of America would have been safe.

Those 70 healthcare workers have spouses, children, etc. (so at a minimum double that 70) and there were 132 (double that at a minimum) on the Cleveland to Dallas flight taken by one of his caretakers – so the numbers just don’t add up. Not much is known about Ebola. Is it possible that on the flight TO Cleveland she passed it along? Furthermore, the children of these 192 people are going to school and it only takes one to spread the disease to an entire school and from there it will go to every family with a child in that school.

There have been comparisons between Ebola and AIDS. Yes, they are both caused by viruses. Yes, they both come from Africa. But there is a huge difference. AIDS is ONLY spread by sexual contact or by blood transfusions – people tend to notice when they have sexual contact or a blood transfusion. Ebola is easily spread to people of all ages and both genders, and does not require any action on the part of the person catching it. You can walk right past someone with AIDS and not worry – but if you are near anyone with Ebola it is easy for you to catch it.

Nurse Nina Pham has been in the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas (and transferred Thursday night to a special care unit in Maryland) where she is still in serious condition after getting Ebola from Duncan, although she has received a blood transfusion from Dr. Kent Brantly, an Ebola survivor. The second infected healthcare worker from the same hospital, Amber Jay Vinson, is being moved to Emory Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia - I have been unable to discover why Vinson and not Pham, but I do know that Emory treated Brantly. However, I did find a number of stories about how Vinson flew to Dallas from Cleveland already had a low grade fever the day before being diagnosed, but was greenlighted for the trip by the CDC. Why did they do that? Why was she on a commercial plane after working with Thomas Eric Duncan? It would have made far more sense to have quarantined every health care worker who had any contact with him, and to do so for 30 days, yet here was a woman who traveled to Cleveland and back.

September 02, 2014

Today is a special event -- Hubby and I have been married for 42 years today. I'm a very lucky blessed girl. Our meeting was meant to be, I truly believe that. You can read the story of how we met here, my version and hubby's version.

Here's his anniversary card to me, I feel the same way.

Not many people these days can brag about meeting their soul mate, marrying him and staying HAPPILY married for 42 years.

To give you an idea how petty and vindictive Google is, in the past when I was running Adsense if I posted something even slightly negative about Google it was almost a guarantee I’d get hit with an unrelated policy violation the next day.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond our means. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, Who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson[1]

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For those who have read even a tiny sampling of my writings, it comes as no surprise that I am unabashedly Roman Catholic. Some may find a bit of offense in this, as if I beg to convert all others into the Church, but this cannot be further from the truth. Nor am I hateful towards other beliefs. For example, I am not hostile towards Judaism; I simply find that the ancient Israelites were far too exclusionary for my contemporary tastes. Neither am I hostile to Islam – I simply question any adherence to the “One True God” that places restrictions upon His power and love by suggesting that He could not come here as fully human, with a fully human mother if He so chose. After all, nothing remains impossible for God. And in fairness, neither am I hostile towards my Protestant brethren – many of whom fabricate a multitude of reasons to exclude me from Christianity. I merely question how they could adhere to Christ’s Church without acknowledging the 2,000+ year history of His Church on earth. After all, I stand before you representing nothing spectacular without considering all the generations that have passed before me. Believing in God, therefore, remains an all-or-nothing proposition. God cannot deceive people because He is Truth.

Evil, however, can deceive for deception remains the best hope for casting doubt into an individual’s capabilities. It remains this doubt that drives humanity away from its Creator. From the earliest moments of human society, we have been forewarned of this evil presence: “…Lucifer, full of envy and pride, resisted [against God’s Plan for Humanity] and induced his followers to resist likewise, as they in reality did, preferring to follow him and disobey the divine command. This wicked prince persuaded them, that he would be their chief and that he would set up a government independent and separate from Christ.”[2] Thus, today, our world remains awash with patently unchristian governments and institutions serving – consciously or subconsciously – Satan’s bidding. Yet, we cannot condemn the sinner – merely the Master of Sin, whom God Himself has condemned for eternity: “The consequences of [the] single moment of trial of the angels are staggering. There is no such thing as a second chance for an angel, no period of contrition and penance. Their freedom from ignorance and passion, their instantaneous grasp of truth removes all possibility of a change of will for them.”[3]

The official website for the International Day Against Homophibia, Biphobia and Transphobia is here. From U.S. Department of State's official website here:

Today of all days, we are reminded that the cause of justice can and must triumph over hatred and prejudice. This is a day of action for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities and their allies all over the world. It is time to reaffirm our commitment to the equality and dignity of all persons, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

It’s not lost on anyone that this year’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) coincides with the 60th anniversary of the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Our commitment to advancing the human rights of LGBT persons is part of this country’s long history of fighting to ensure that all people can exercise their human rights.

We have seen incredible progress in the fight to advance the human rights and fundamental freedoms of LGBT persons.

And the United States is proud to be doing its part. This past week, we convened religious leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations to think about how we work together to promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons. Next week, we will convene meetings with our private sector allies to discuss the important role of the business community in promoting equality and the ways we can partner through the Global Equality Fund.

But this must be more than a moment to celebrate how far we have come. We know that our work is not complete when countries enact laws targeting LGBT persons and their supporters. We know that our work is not complete when LGBT persons and their allies are harassed, arrested, and even killed simply because of who they are and who they love.

The United States condemns these senseless acts of violence and discrimination. Human rights are universal, and LGBT persons and their allies must be free to exercise them without fear of intimidation or reprisal.

When our LGBT brothers and sisters are threatened anywhere, it is a threat to freedom, justice and dignity of people everywhere. The United States will continue to protect and promote the human rights of LGBT persons worldwide this day and every day. Onward.

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